Flood of Anti-Boehner Calls Rattles Leadership

The Washington Examiner ^ | Wednesday, January 7, 2015 | Susan Ferrechio

[kristinn]

It wasn’t the Republican votes against House Speaker John Boehner that truly rattled the GOP leadership, it was the phone calls.

There were hundreds of them, jamming the phone lines of the district and Capitol offices of dozens of House GOP lawmakers.

The callers were not angry about legislation. Nor were they asking for help with a local matter. They were demanding their representative vote against Boehner Tuesday in his bid to win election to a third term as speaker.

For the GOP leadership, the flood of calls was a game changer. It thrusted the leadership into triage mode as it scrambled to heal the growing rift among House Republicans.

“We’ve never been lobbied quite like that,” House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. “We yesterday began a new era of circumstances, and one is that we have members who are going to solicit the outside in ways that they have not previously.”

Boehner was so agitated by the phone calls that he raised the issue to his rank and file in a private meeting Wednesday morning, those in the room reported.

[kiryandil]

Term limits may be the only solution. Two terms in office. Ten years in prison.

Yer killin' me...

[tennmountainman]

Oh, they are listening.

They simply fear the DC Elites more than they fear their District Voters.
Until that changes, it will NEVER change,

[justa-hairyape]

Before we all either starve or freeze to death.

[wewereright]

I just called the NRCC at 202-479-7000 and asked if I could specifically donate to the congressman who voted against Boehner. LOL! If you’ve got some time please call them. After my snarky question, I gave them hell about retaliating against the dissenters.

[stephenjohnbanker]

LOL!

Good one.

[demshateGod]

And they won’t learn a thing.

[george123]

This is what I sent my representative

Dear Representative Coffman,

We cannot tell you how disappointed we are in your vote for John Boehner for Speaker. Couple that with your vote for the CRomnibus bill we have decided you do not represent us.

Enclosed is a card you sent saying the Republicans are in a great position to go toe-to-toe with Obama. Based on your actions it is a lie…you are just trying to assuage us while you are really beholden to the Establishment Republicans who are really no better than the liberals. You voted to fund Obamacare. You voted to fund amnesty. You lie.

Our political system is broken and you are symptomatic of the collapse. The people voted for Republicans because they want, we want, Obama stopped. We don’t need legislation passed. We need the damage that has been done by liberal socialists undone.

Please lick someone else’s shoes. You do not have our vote in 2016.

Sincerely,

[NFHale]

Well, that’s that, then!

[Windflier]

Rep. Pete Sessions: "...we have members who are going to solicit the outside..."

Interesting turn of phrase, isn't it? Shows you the mindset of these Beltway insiders and elitists. Sessions is my congressman, but I'm an outsider, as far as he's concerned.

No, Pete, you're the outsider. We're the American people, and we want you and the rest of your traitorous, scumbag friends to get out of our House!

[Windflier]

FU Kenny Marchant!!!

Mega dittos.

I helped Marchant get elected to Congress, and for his first term, he was as straight as an arrow. I don't know how 'they' got to him, but it's pretty obvious that he's knuckled under.

I really had high hopes for the guy, but he's already done.

[dandiegirl]

I have called too and will continue too. I told him that he was retaliating against Americans that voted for these men to stand up to the establishment and that he was just a big of a thug as Holder and BO.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. I’ve been here so long .. I’ve been on the “list” forever.

[no-to-illegals]

Good to see your posts Windflier ... please say hello to LibertyBelle and all of yours from Better Half and I.

[Pajamajan]

>>we have members who are going to solicit the outside in ways that they have not previously.

"The arrogance and cluelessness in that statement is utterly breathtaking."

Agreed.

[Night Hides Not]

So what do we do about Marchant? AFAIK, he hasn’t had any competition to speak of. The only one I can think of is our new rep in Austin, but I have a feeling Ratliff wants to get that seat back.

[dandiegirl]

I just called Pete's office to complain about his vote and his going against his constituents. He's my rep too. Told the girl that I hope he isn't supporting this retaliation business going on.

[no-to-illegals]

Ain’t it fun being on a U.S. Government list, as a subversive ... Kind of makes ones day, it does, and makes one feel almost like a Founding Father or Mother. Of course they use words other than Founding when describing us but that’s okay. I don’t like them either in D.C.

[Windflier]

please say hello to LibertyBelle and all of yours from Better Half and I.

I sure will. Good to see you too!

[Windflier]

So what do we do about Marchant?

Let him know that he's failed the test, and that we're going to work to oust him in the next election. The man straight up lied to us, and now he's got to pay.

[Windflier]

I just called Pete's office to complain about his vote and his going against his constituents. He's my rep too.

Thanks for registering your disgust with his office.

I haven't yet done so, myself, but I did send him a letter before the vote, asking him to vote against Boehner.

When I do contact Sessions again, I'm going to let him know that I'm going to spread the word far and wide, what a sell-out traitor he is to his constituents.